IEEEBos March 2018 Digital Reflector by IEEE Boston Section

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial: “Blockchains and ICOs, Software Development for Medical Device by Kevin Flavin, Electronics Communications Manufacturers .......................................... Page 28 Team Chair...................................................Page 3 Fundamentals of Real-Time Operating Call for Articles ........................................... Page 4 Systems.................................................... Page 30 (Last Notice, Please Register Now!!!) Spring Course Flyer ................................... Page 5 Phased Array and Adaptive Array Fundamentals Communications Society............................ Page 6 and Their Recent Advances ..................... Page 33 (Last Notice, Please Register Now!!!) Entrepreneurs’ Network and Technology and Engineering Management Society ............. Page 7 Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers ......................................... Page 37 Photonics Society ...................................... Page 9 More Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Reliability Society ..................................... Page 10 Wireless Communications ....................... Page 40 (Last Notice, Please Register Now!!!) Entrepreneurs’ Network ........................... Page 11 Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Consultants’ Network ............................... Page 13 Device Drivers (online course) ............... Page 42 Photonics Chapter Workshop ................. Page 14

Embedded Linux Optimization: Tools and Techniques (online course) .................... Page 45

2018 IEEE/MIT Undergraduate Technology Research Conference .............................. Page 15 Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers (online course) ............... Page 48 2018 IEEE international symposium on Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Technologies for Homealnd Security (HST), Call for Papers (New submission deadline, venue Electromagnetics (online course) ......... Page 49 and event dates) ...................................... Page 16 Reliability Engineering for the Business World (online course) ....................................... Page 50 Determining and Communicating Project Value Return on Investment (ROI) ..................... Page 18 Introduction to Embedded Linux (online course) .. Making You a Leader - Fast Track! .......... Page 20 ................................................................. Page 51 Proactive User Acceptance Testing ......... Page 22 Writing Agile User Story and Acceptance Test Requirements .......................................... Page 24 Developing Reusable Test Designs ......... Page 26

Design Thinking for today’s Technical Work ...... online course)......................................... Page 53 2018 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) Call for Papers ...... Page 55 IEEE Boston Section Online Course Listing .......... .................................................................. Page 57

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Blockchains and ICOs by Kevin Flavin, Chair, IEEE Boston Section Electronic Communications Team

Blockchain. Sounds mysterious and exciting and dangerous all at once. The term is often used in conjunction with FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). Or it’s mentioned in hushed tones at the family BBQ, because somebody’s friend’s brother has a friend that is dealing it - whatever that means.

Blockchain as an ICO ICO, or initial currency offering, is when a group of people decide to create a new digital currency. They publish a white paper of their application of the blockchain technology, and take investments into the initial round of creation of the digital currency.

Fortunately, there’s a lot of information out there to clarify what it is. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of information out there to muddy the information, possibly for nefarious purposes.

There is a lot of information out there, some of it fraudulent, some of it valuable - caveat emptor, buyer beware.

Fortunately, unfortunately - the key root of the words is: Fortune. Something that you could lose if you don’t become completely familiar with the terms and conditions of what you are working with. Well, the IEEE is here to help! First, what is blockchain? A blockchain records all prior transactions of a block (of information) into the new transaction ‘block’, creating a chain of encrypted blocks, that is then shared publicly. This is an oversimplification, and more and more often, when someone refers to blockchain, they are referring to a particular application of the technology in the creation of ‘digital currency’. The IEEE has published an article describing this on Spectrum’s website: https://goo.gl/714g3a. Also they have a good webpage to cover this topic via The Institute: https://goo.gl/Bi35vC. Need just a lingo refresher? Yes, there’s a tap for that, via the Spectrum. Tap right here: https://goo.gl/fjE5vk. A blockchain, per Google/dictionary.com, is a digital ledger in which transactions made in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly.

A popular application of the blockchain, Bitcoin, is the most recognized use of the technology to create an ICO. Bitcoin is often quoted in the financial newspapers now, even though very few people own any of it. Ethereum, while less recognized by the general public, is more accessible to the broader blockchain industry, and has been ‘forked’ more times than any other to create new ICOs. This is a severe over-simplification, but ‘forking’ is when someone takes a copy of the original, and goes in a different direction. Ethereum as a technology is popular because it’s easier to launch new ICOs than using the Bitcoin technology - again an oversimplification, but you get the gist. CNBC reports that more than $3 B USD was raised in new ICOs in 2017. I’m just going to leave this here and slowly back away. If this feels a little ‘squirrelly’ to you, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase is not a fan of digital currency, and he predicted, “[if] you’re stupid enough to buy [bitcoin], you’ll pay the price for it one day.” Many other uses of this innovation! However, there are many more uses of the blockchain technology besides digital currency. The technological idea of a secure block of information, encrypted to prevent tampering, is extremely valuable. Companies

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are beginning to look at ways to apply the concept and technology in new ways to help solve their problems.

it’s one of the top initiatives of the IEEE to provide information as well as developing standards where possible. They’ve built a sub-domain on IEEE just for blockchain: https://blockchain.ieee.org.

AT&T and Bayer are using blockchain to track their digital advertising - to solve the age-old problem of trying to measure the effectiveness of advertising and mar- There’s an IEEE Working Group: https://goo.gl/g7Nh5z keting. Consulting firms are rushing to fill the void of good information, as well as helping companies apply the tools in their businesses. Cognizant and Accenture are very active in this area, with a steady flow of white papers and thought leadership available. Companies aren’t the only benefactors of the blockchain movement, governments have a role to play here and potentially can realize cost savings, better service and fewer risks. Estonia is a fast leader in applying blockchain to serving their residents and even Estonian nationals when they are abroad. You can read more about this innovative approach here: https://goo.gl/h5etNK. What about the IEEE? The IEEE has so many resources on this topic, in fact

Anyone interested in engaging with the IEEE regarding blockchain can also participate on Collabratec: https:// goo.gl/Xj4cF5 Finally, they’ve even implemented a Slack channel for blockchain: https://goo.gl/xvNnXK I hope you get a chance to dig into this topic, and if you are already using blockchain, or are thinking about it, we would love to hear about how you are approaching it for your business. Drop us a quick line, choosing the Digital Reflector Editorial Board as the recipient: https://goo.gl/D2eVPU

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Communications Society – 7:00PM, Thursday, 1 March

A Technical Description of Starry’s Millimeter Wave based Broadband Service This meeting is preceded by dinner Please circulate to interested parties. with our guest speaker at Bertucci’s, 475 Winter St, Waltham, MA at Venue Note. This is our venue at the new Verizon Tech5:30 PM. nology Center Campus in Waltham. The meeting begins at 7 PM at the new meeting audiBoston-based startup Starry has been torium at the Verizon Technology Center. The address operating a commercial millimeter is 60 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA 02451. The entrance wave-based broadband access net- is by the far corner – with the picnic tables out front – work in the Boston metro area using a and not the tower or the new building. It is most easily set of advanced technologies equivalent or similar to reached by the West Street entrance. certain aspects of the proposed 3GPP 5G standards since early 2017. Starry operates a wide area broad- Important Note: Verizon Technology Center requests band service using 37.0 ~ 38.6 GHz as granted under the names of the meeting attendees in advance of the a market test authority license by the Federal Commu- meeting. If you plan to attend, please send a note via nications Commission (FCC), to test the commercial e-mail with your name to John Nitzke at RF@ieee.org capability of millimeter wave frequencies. To prove out by Wednesday, February 28th. the technology’s capability, Starry has extended base technologies of the IEEE’s 802.11ac and 802.11ax such The meeting is preceded by dinner at Bertucci’s, 475 as MU-MIMO and Hybrid Digital Beamforming avail- Winter St, Waltham at 5:30 PM. The speaker will be able in 802.11ac and 802.11ax and built sophisticated joining us at dinner. front ends using active phased array antenna systems to provide resilient broadband service wirelessly to the Directions to Bertucci’s restaurant in Waltham: Take home, at gigabit-capable speeds. Starry also uses Exit 27B on I95/128, heading west on Winter Street. other leading edge technologies including the ITU-T’s After exiting, stay all the way to the right and take the G.hn. Starry will share its technical and operational ex- first right turn into the shopping plaza. Please let Bob perience in building and operating this technology. Malupin know if you plan to attend the dinner at Bertucci’s. Bob can be contacted at Robert.Malupin@VeriSpeaker: Joe Lipowski, CTO, Starry zonWireless.com . Joe Lipowski is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Starry, since its inception in late 2014. Prior Directions to Verizon Technology Center (old Verizon to Starry, Joe was the CTO for Aereo, where he led the Labs location), 60 Sylvan Rd. campus, Waltham, MA technology development for Aereo’s cloud-based an- 02451: Take Exit 27B on I95/128, heading west on tenna/DVR platform to deliver internet television over Winter Street. Stay all the way to the right. Verizon IP, pioneering the use of a high density small antenna Technology Center is 1/2 mile ahead. At the second farm. Prior to Aereo, Joe held senior executive techni- traffic light, turn left onto WEST ST. and then take the cal leadership positions in the wireless communications first right (at the Verizon sign) which leads into the Vefield including at LoJack, Andrew Corporation, and Bell rizon campus. Take the first left. The building and enLabs/Lucent Technologies, Cirrus Logic, Pacific Com- trance for the meeting are on your right. Note that the munication Sciences and M/A-COM Inc. Joe holds 17 entrance to the auditorium area is by the far corner – with the picnic tables out front – and not the tower or patents in wireless technologies. the new building.

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Entrepreneur’s Network and Technology and Engineering Management Society – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 6 March

Crossing the Chasm From First Sales to Building Sales Growth MEETING LOCATION: Constant Contact, Inc., Reservoir Place, 3rd Floor Great Room, 1601 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA

Pre-Meeting Dinner: Join us for a pre-meeting networking dinner (self-pay) at Bertrucci’s in Waltham prior to the start of this meeting. Dinner at 5:15 sharp.

OK…You started a business and now aren’t sure how to produce revenue. Do you need to begin your company’s sales effort and don’t know where to start or what to do? Simple questions yet no simple answers. Don’t be confused by all the jargon out there! There are many different strategies and opinions, but every company is different. Therefore, your plan to roll out sales is going to be unique to your company. Our panelists combine many years of sales successes and failures in many verticals and will be joining together to discuss how to begin and ultimately consistently grow your sales.

Constant Contact is adjacent to RT 128 / 95 at Exit 28B. See: http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constantcontact/office-location-waltham.jsp

E-Minute Presentations: These 1 ½ minute presentations enable startup entrepreneurs to gain experience in presenting their summary to expert panels and audiences.

Panelists:

Moderator:

Ceri Ruenheck is President of It’s Your Call (www.itsyourcall.com), a business to business telemarketing firm that was established in 1994. It’s Your Call helps small businesses make the necessary outbound calls that they might not have the resources to perform themselves. Agenda: In 2009, Ceri opened a second busi6:30-7:30 pm - Networking ness www.twocoolcats.com, a website 7:30-7:40 pm - Announcements development company. In addition to 7:40-7:55 pm - E Minute - Up to 3 Startup companies’ running those businesses, Ceri consults to small compresentations panies who need help with putting together a marketing 7:55-8:45 pm - 3 or 4 expert speakers on the night’s process. She is also a noted speaker and author of the topic e-book “Cold Calling for the Clueless” www.coldcalling8:45-9:00 pm - Q & A fortheclueless.com She is the mother of two boys and 9:00-9:30 pm - Networking including meeting speakers two cats all living in out of Harvard, MA. Janet Comenos is CEO and CoFounder of Spotted, the leading celebrity data company that helps consumer brands and agencies make smarter ceRefreshments: Cheese, crackers, chips, cookies, soft lebrity endorser and ambassador decidrinks & juice sions. In 2017, AdWeek named Spotted “a diamond-studded data firm” and Reservations: Free to ENET members and $20 for non Janet was named one of the Boston -members. No reservations are needed for the pre-meetGlobe’s top 20 female tech executives. ing dinner. Members & non-members, pre-register for She was previously SVP of Sales at Promoboxx. Janet the meeting online, until midnight the day before the is a Board Member of TUGG, an organization that pairs meeting. If you cannot pre-register, you are welcome to tech companies with philanthropies that serve unpriviregister at the door. leged youth, and a Board Member of Influence Examiner, the leading FTC monitoring and compliance solu-

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tion for consumer brands. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and is an avid tennis player.

ences in startups, small companies up to and including fortune 500 companies.

Louie Balasny is Managing Director of botkeeper, a company that does everything a bookkeeper does, only faster, 24/7, with more reporting, beautiful dashboards, and at a fraction of the cost through the use of software, machine learning & skilled human accountants. Louie holds his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School and began his career at Thomas Brady & Associates. There, he was Regional Director of Advanced Planning and was responsible for strategic development and implementation of advanced planning strategies.

Tom has received numerous awards and accolades during his career. He is a business professional with demonstrated results, as well as the ability to produce in high pressure situations. Today, Tom uses his sales & management experience to deliver interim management, training and coaching to small companies.

He specialized in the execution of estate planning, business planning and insurance placement for individuals, executives and business owners. After several years, Louie moved into banking and was a Relationship Banking Officer at Admirals Bank where he was part of a team that helped bring in over $200 million in deposits. The startup world and lifelong desire to build something from the ground up has always been his passion which ultimately led him to botkeeper where his in charge of growing the sales as well as everything else that is done to get a startup off the ground. Tom Libby, CEO, Diversified Sales Solutions Co-Founder Smarketing Institute Tom is a seasoned Sales VP and Business Development Executive. He is a Co-Founder of the SmarketingInstitute.Org and the CEO of Diversified Sales Solutions, Inc., a firm that provides outsourced sales solutions. Getting Sales strategy right is part vocation, part mission for Tom. Over the past 18 years Tom has developed his management, leadership, and sales skills in diverse industries and includes experi-

Co-Sponsor: IEEE Technology and Engineering Management (TEM) Society, Boston Chapter National: The Engineering Management Society (EMS) was founded in 1951, becoming the Technology Management Council (TMC) in 2007. In 2015 we transitioned to the Technology and Engineering Management Society, (TEMS). The Boston TEMS Chapter has been approved by Section and IEEE HQ. Vision, Mission, Values at http://www.ieee-tems.org/ Membership: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.html?product=MEMTEM014 Boston TEMS Chapter: Technology and Engineering Management (TEM) Society, Boston Chapter is for Engineering Managers and Executives from Engineering, Science and Technology based companies. All those aspiring to become proficient and powerful Leaders are welcome. We aim is to provide knowledge to make strategic and critical decisions. We draw upon real-life scenarios from across the spectrum of engineering specialties. Our meetings will serve those looking to Manage Engineering Programs, Projects and Technologies. You can learn from leaders, get mentored by experts, share experiences and network with accomplished professionals. We invite all our Technology and Engineering Management (TEM) Society members, Non-members and interested engineering executives in technology and engineering to participate in this meeting.

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Photonics Society – 7:00PM, Thursday, 8 March

Ultrafast (100GHz) Modulation of LEDs Seth A. Fortuna, UC Berkeley in the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science

By coupling a light emitter to an optical antenna, it is now possible to make spontaneous emission faster than stimulated emission. This alludes to the exciting possibility of a directlymodulated LED that is faster than the LASER. Such an antenna-coupled LED (or simply antenna-LED) is well-suited as a light source for onchip optical communication where small size, fast speed, and high efficiency are needed to achieve the promised benefit of reduced power consumption of on-chip optical links.

dustry at Intel Corporation and Philips Lumileds working primarily on reliability and failure analysis of semiconductor devices. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley in the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science developing novel devices for energy efficient computing and communication. Meeting Details: This meeting begins at 7 PM Thursday, March 8th, 2018 and will be located 3 Forbes Road, Lexington, MA, 02420.

Note this is a satellite location ~1.5mi away from MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The meeting is free and open to the In this talk, I will discuss our recent progress in devel- public. All are welcome. oping high speed and efficient antenna-LEDs implemented in a monolithically integrated manner. I will Prior to the seminar there will be social time and netreport the experimental demonstration of an electrical- working from 6:30 – 7:00PM. Dinner will also be proly-injected III-V antenna-LED with a two-order of mag- vided. nitude increase in the spontaneous emission rate. It The seminar will begin at 7:00PM. will be shown that this nanoscale device can eventually achieve >100 GHz direct modulation rate at high effi- For more information contact Ajay Garg, IEEE Boston ciency and is therefore a suitable light source for atto- Photonics Society chair at ajay.sinclair.garg@ieee.org, or visit the IEEE Boston Photonics Society website at joule-per-bit on-chip optical communication. Dr. Seth Fortuna, University of California, Berkeley, www.bostonphotonics.org. Berkeley, CA Directions to Forbes Rd Lincoln Laboratory: (from interSeth A. Fortuna received the B.Sc. from Pennsylvania state I-95/Route 128) Take Exit 30B onto Marrett Rd in Lexington – State University in 2003, M.Sc. from University of Illinois • at Urbana-Champaign in 2009 and Ph.D. from the Uni- Merge into left lane Make the first Left onto Forbes Rd. versity of California, Berkeley in 2017; all in electrical • Proceed straight through the small rotary and engineering. His dissertation research was recognized • with the 2016 Tucker Award which honors superior work enter the parking lot. The entrance is by the flags. and scholarship in the technology of materials used in • semiconductor devices. He has previously worked in in-

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Reliability Society – 5:30PM, Wednesday, 14 March

Advancements in Acoustic Micro Imaging Jack H. Richtsmeier, Nordson Sonoscan

Acoustic Micro Imaging is an established non-destructive inspection technique that applies ultrasound for the inspection of microelectronic and semiconductor devices, packaging and associated materials. The technology has been widely used for bond / dis-bond assessment, defect and flaw detection as well as materials characterization. Recent advancements and new technological developments have allowed more applications to be resolved within the marketplace. The presentation will include the following: • Principles and Fundamentals • Micro-slicing – Sonolytics • Very High Frequency Transducers • Waterfall & Water Plume • 3-D Imaging (Virtual Rescan Mode (VRM)) • Frequency Domain Imaging (FDI) • Integral Mode Imaging • Surface profilometry (Acoustic Surface Flatness (ASF)) • Subsurface profilometry (Profile Mode) • Multi-layer analysis (Sonosimulator) This presentation will cover these latest advancements by showing examples and case studies through a variety of advanced packaging applications. Author Bio: Mr. Jack H. Richtsmeier holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Science from The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. His professional background includes over 35 years of sales engineering and marketing experience within the industrial and scientific marketplace. He has a combined 25 years of expertise working in ultrasonics directly within the semiconductor and microelectronic market sectors. Mr. Richtsmeier is presently employed as Business Development Manager for Nordson Sonoscan, Inc. headquartered in Elk Grove Village, IL Meeting Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 3 Forbes Rd, Lexington, Massachusetts, 02421 Directions to 3 Forbes Road, Lexington, MA:

• Take Route 128/I-95 to Exit 30B, Route 2A Westbound. • At the first traffic light, turn left onto Forbes Road. • Go to the end of the street. • At the traffic circle, turn right. • Go halfway around the traffic circle and turn into the parking lot for MIT Lincoln Laboratory • The main entrance is straight ahead, shared with “agenus”.

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Entrepreneur’s Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 20 March

Building a Compelling Slide Deck: Winning Investors With Your Pitch & Presentation MEETING LOCATION: Microsoft Technology Center, 5 Wayside Road, Burlington, MA 01803 One of the most obvious and challenging key requirements for the success of an early stage entrepreneurial company is securing funding. This meeting is focused on learning how to win potential investors with the right pitch deck and presentation. That is, does the deck articulate a vision, the market opportunity, growth potential, and the leadership team. It will also focus on how companies can build a value proposition, which is a critical step before raising money. Investors want to understand your value proposition - how does your product address a specific problem, why is it useful and to whom, or is it a disruptive technology?

the right people.

Moderator: Brigid Siegel. Managing Partner and President Brigid Siegel Associates. Consultants focused on retained executive search, finding and developing leaders as well as building effective managing teams which will guarantee success in any technology, life sciences or biotech field. It starts with identifying objectives and finding

Speaker: Christopher Skipwith, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University and a Member of Bentley’s Health Thought The Panel is composed of a Professor teaching stuLeadership Network. His work integrates dents how to create the correct business model and basic science with policy, business, and pitch deck, a successful business founder with an exit public health to assess analytical stanthrough acquisition, and a Senior Executive in private dards for diagnostic tests and medical and public sectors who is also a turn-around specialist devices. He was involved in founding two point-of-care and author. diagnostics start-up companies, IONU Biosystems and Ecelius Biosystems. He serves on the Board of the SciAgenda: ence Education Academy, a Philadelphia-area initiative 6:30-7:30 PM Registration & networking engaging underrepresented minorities in STEM-related 7:30-7:40 PM ENET Chairman’s announcements careers, serves on the board of TBED21, Inc., which 7:40-7:55 PM eMinute - Up to 3 Startup companies’ advances technology-based education for low-income presentations areas, and co-chaired advocacy and diversity panels 7:55-8:45 PM - 3 or 4 expert speakers on the night’s for the National Postdoctoral Association. topic He has a B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from 8:45-9:00 PM - Audience / Speakers Q & A 9:00-9:30 PM - Final networking including meeting the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics from the University speakers of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the eMinute Presentations: These 1 ½ minute presenta- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeasttions enable startup entrepreneurs to gain experience ern University and Department of Materials Science in presenting their summary to expert panels and au- and Engineering at MIT. diences. Speaker: Dr. Lissy Hu works with leading health sysRefreshments: Cheese, crackers, chips, cookies, soft tems and accountable care organizations to optimize drinks & juice post-acute care outcomes. She serves as the CEO and Founder of CarePort Health which enables healthcare

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providers to enhance post-acute outcomes and costs by guiding patients across the care continuum and tracking their recovery in real-time. In 2016 CarePort was acquired by Allscripts to extend its breadth as the largest connected acute and post-acute provider network in the industry. Dr. Hu, an in-demand speaker and thought leader, has previously led sessions at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Harvard Business School, Case Management Society of America, HIMSS Population Health, Medical Group Management Association, Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit, and SXSW among many others. Dr. Hu and CarePort received a certificate of special congressional recognition for outstanding contribution to Massachusetts. CarePort has been named “10 Boston Healthcare Tech Companies to Watch” by VentureFizz and “Best Patient Relationship Management Solutions” by MedTech. CarePort is a past winner of the Harvard Business Plan Competition.

ing for both President George W. Bush and President Obama. Tom is a turn-around artist on Wall Street and serves on many global Boards. He also currently assists President Trump’s team when asked. Tom has authored or co-authored 25 scholarly books and over 211 high-tech business articles. Cellucci earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (1984), an MBA from Rutgers University (1991) and a BS in Chemistry from Fordham University (1980). He is on 21 Boards and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Virginia International University near Washington, D.C., as well as Chairman of Eurasian Technological University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He holds two endowed Chairs at prestigious universities in Kazakhstan, as well as taught at Harvard Business School, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife Julie spent their free time with their large amount of children and grandchildren. Directions: Microsoft Technology Center, 5 Wayside Road Burlington, MA 01803 See: https://foursquare.com/v/microsoft-technology-enter/4a563f0af964a520d7b41fe3

Dr. Hu is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, where she was a recipient of the Kaplan Life Sciences Award, and holds a bachelor’s Reservations: This meeting is free to ENET members degree Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University. and $20 for non-members. To expedite sign-in for the meeting, we ask that everyone -- members as well as Speaker: The Hon., Thomas A. Cel- non-members -- pre-register for the meeting online. lucci, Ph.D., MBA. has been a senior Pre-registration is available until midnight the day beexecutive in both the private and public fore the meeting. If you cannot pre-register, you are sectors for over 36 years. He served as welcome to register at the door. the US Government’s first-ever Chief Commercialization Officer after selling his fourth high technology firm, work-

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Consultant’s Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 27 March

Building a Successful Consulting Practice: What Does Success Mean to You? Johanna Rothman

How can you tell if a potential consulting engagement is right for you? How can you know what to charge, so you’re happy if you get the engagement or you don’t? When you define success for yourself as a consultant, you can create the consulting business you want. You’ll take the right gigs and decline the others. It’s a matter of defining your version of success. You’ll learn to define the kind of role you want, for the kind of clients you want, so you can create your successful consulting practice. About Johanna Rothman Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems, resolve risks, and manage their product development. Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair and was the co-chair of the first edition of the Agile Practice Guide. Johanna is the author of these books: • Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver • Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition • Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish • Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein) • Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost • Manage Your Job Search • Hiring Geeks That Fit

• The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic • Project Management • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management She writes columns for projectmanagment.com, and writes two blogs on her web site, jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com. Please Note: The meeting is open to the public. No charge for Consultants’ Network members or employees of Constant Contact; $5 entrance fee for all others. Casual Dress. The Consultants Network meeting starts at 6:30 PM. The meeting will take place at Constant Contact, Reservoir Place - 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02451, in the Great Room on the third floor. A no host, PRE-MEETING DINNER will take place at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, 475 Winter Street, Waltham, MA (exit 27B, Rte. 128) Driving Directions to Constant Contact Follow I-95/route 128 to Trapelo Rd in North Waltham, Waltham. Take exit 28 from I-95/route 128. (https://goo.gl/maps/tvn3I) Consultants Network meetings generally take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month, but are not held during most summer months. For more information, e-mail cn.boston@ieee.org or chairman@boston-consult.com; or contact the Chairman Frederick Beihold at (508) 405-0499.

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IEEE Photonics Society Boston Chapter Presents:

Advances in Interferometry Workshop Wednesday, April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 2018, 7:00–9:30 PM Located at MIT Lincoln Laboratory – 3 Forbes Road, Lexington, MA, 02420, USA

This workshop will feature talks on different aspects of interferometry from the latest advances in optical interferometry to recent advances in atomic de Broglie interferometry. For complete coverage - talks are included on optical interferometry, such as developing the precision and stability necessary for instrumenting the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,which recently won the Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting the gravitational radiation of colliding neutron stars; health based bio-medical interferometry; ground based seismic wave interferometry; and radio astronomy interferometry. Amazing advances in Atomic Interferometry are examined, which is a technique that underlies a large number of recent precision measurements, exploiting the fact that matter, like light, exhibits wave-like properties. In atom interferometry, atoms laser-cooled to millionths of a degree above absolute zero, are driven into quantum superpositions by pulses of laser light. By manipulating the state of the atoms using lasers to steer the matter waves' paths and recombine the matter waves at the end of the experiment, the energy and couplings along the atoms' path and their interaction with the light pulses serve to determine the phase shift between matter waves across the two arms of the interferometer, identical to the way optical and radio interferometers work. Since atoms have mass, atom interferometers can be used to measure gravitational effects, and fundamental constants such as the gravitational constant and the fine structure constant. This workshop will bring together leading experts in the field to discuss the latest research in interferometry and their future technological applications. This workshop also aims to foster communication and collaboration through networking among the individual engineers and researchers attending. Learn more about the rapid advances in interferometry directly from the foremost researchers in the different specialties involved, by registering for and attending this workshop.

Wednesday April 4, 2018

Developing the Precision and Stability Necessary for Instrumenting LIGO Dr. Peter K. Fritschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute, Cambridge, MA Imaging the Invisible Dr. Katie Bouman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday April 11, 2018

Quantum Interferometry in the Presence of Gravity Dr. Igor Pikovski, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA An Interferometric Reflectance Bio Imaging Sensor Prof. M. Selim Ünlü, Boston University, Boston, MA

Wednesday April 18, 2018

Prospects for Precise Measurements with Echo Atom Interferometry Prof. Anatharaman Kumarakrishnan, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Resonant Microphotonic Gyroscope Dr. Andrey Matsko, OEWaves, Pasadena, CA

Wednesday April 25, 2018

More Power to Atom Interferometry Prof. Alexander D. Cronin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Quantum Sensors Based on Interferometry Prof. Alexander V. Sergienko, Boston University, Boston, MA

Wednesday May 2, 2018

Ramsey-Bordé Interferometer for Electrons Prof. Karl-Peter Marzlin, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Quantum Hall Interferometry Prof. Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Advance registration and fee required (Open to all IEEE members as well as non-members) $75/$85 (IEEE Member/Non-Member) early registration fee for ten 1-hour talks over five nights; cost includes coffee and cookies each night, as well as downloadable copies of speakers slides. Early registration deadline March 31st, 2018. Post deadline fee $85/$95 (IEEE Member/Non-Member). Registration form, abstracts, speaker’s bios at: http://www.bostonphotonics.org/workshops/interferometry18/ For more information contact: 1) Farhad Hakimi, (fhakimi@ieee.org), Advances in Interferometry Workshop Co-Chair 2) Bill Nelson, (w.nelson@ieee.org), Advances in Interferometry Workshop Co-Chair

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2018 MIT IEEE Undergraduate Research Technology Conference

Call for Submissions

CONFERENCE: Oct 5-7, 2018 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 30th, 2018 SUBMIT TO: https://ieee-r1-studentconference.myreviewroom.com Envisioning a technical conference targeted towards undergraduate students all over the globe, the MIT IEEE Student Branch in 2015 inaugurated the IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. This year we are organizing it again with the goal to make the conference a venue where undergraduate students can meet to present, discuss, and develop solutions advancing technology. Participants can attend a rich program with renowned speakers, technical sessions, a student design competition, exhibits, networking, and social activities, as well as a great opportunity for students to interact with leading industry experts. Our 2017 conference had 267 attendees, including several internationals and students from across the US, with a technical paper acceptance rate of 38%. The conference theme is “Meet Innovative Technology,” and the eight technical tracks include: 1. Machine Learning and ArtiÞcial Intelligence

2. Security and Communications 3. Human-Computer Interaction and Graphics 4. Robotics and Controls 5. BioEECS and Applied Physics 6. Computer Systems 7. Circuits, Materials, and Nanotechnologies

8. Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics Authors may submit content in the form of a technical paper, poster, or lightning talk. All submissions must be written in English. Paper submissions must be no longer than 4 pages, single-spaced, with a minimum of 10 point font, and submissions may include Þgures, illustrations, and graphs. Abstract submissions for the poster and lightning talks are limited to 500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by faculty, graduate students, and industry professionals. Submissions are online, with a deadline of June 30th, 2018. NotiÞcation of acceptance will be sent via email by August 4th, 2018. Please join the mailing list (MIT-Conference@ieee.org) for more information and updates on submission, the technical program, registration, and accommodation. A conference proceeding of all the accepted papers that have been presented at the conference may be published and included in the IEEE Xplore journal. Electronic and online media containing all accepted submissions will be distributed to all registered attendees.

MEET INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY

Sponsored by the MIT IEEE Student Branch and IEEE Boston Section http://ieee.scripts.mit.edu/conference

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NOTE NEW EVENT DATE, LOCATION AND PAPER SUBMISSION DATES !!!!

http://ieee-hst.org/ Co-sponsor: Call for Papers & Posters The 18th annual IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST ’18), will be held 23-24 October 2018, in the greater Boston, MA area. This symposium brings together innovators from leading academic, industry, businesses, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, and government agencies to provide a forum to discuss ideas, concepts, and experimental results. Produced by IEEE with technical support from DHS S&T, IEEE, IEEE Boston Section, and IEEE-USA and organizational support from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Raytheon, this year’s event will once again showcase selected technical papers and posters highlighting emerging technologies to: Cybersecurity

Biometrics & Forensics

Land/ Maritime Borders & Critical Infrastructure Protection

Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

We are currently seeking technical paper and poster session submissions in each of the above areas. Papers examining the feasibility of transition to practice will also be considered. This year, we introduce a new track focused on the highly topical area of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief. All areas will cover the following common topics: • Strategy and threat characterization, operational concepts, risk analysis; • Modeling, simulation, experimentation, and exercises & training; and • Testbeds, standards, performance and evaluations.

Contact Information For more detailed information on the Call for Papers and Posters, as well as Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities, visit the website http://ieee-hst.org/ or email: information@ieee-hst.org. Submissions should be made at the following website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HST2018/ Important Dates Paper Extended Abstract Deadline:

May 1, 2018

Paper, Poster and Acceptance Notification

July 2, 2018

Final Paper Submission Deadline:

September 15, 2018

All deadlines are by midnight Eastern Time. Organizing Committee General Chairs: Deputy Chair: Technical Chairs: Local Arrangement Chair: Marketing Chair: Publications Chair: Sponsorship/Exhibits Chair: Special Advisor to the Chair: Registration Chair:

Technical Program Committee Chairs Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Melissa Choi, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Mischa Shattuck, MIT Lincoln Laboratory James Flavin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Mathew Daggett, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fausto Molinet, Matrix Internationale Enhance Biometrics & Forensics Gerald Larocque MIT Lincoln Laboratory Eric Schwoebel, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Anthony Serino, Raytheon James L. Wayman, San Jose State University Bob Alongi, IEEE Boston Land/ Maritime Borders & Critical Infrastructure Protection Jessica Kelly, Raytheon John Aldridge, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Adam Norige, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lance Fiondella, UMass, Dartmouth Fausto Molinet, Matrix Internationale Rich Moro, Raytheon Lennart Long, EMC Consultant Secure Cyberspace Karen Safina, IEEE Boston

Hong Liu, UMass Dartmouth Firas Glaiel, Raytheon Thomas Edgar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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IEEE Boston Section Online Courses:

(Students have 90 day access to all online, self-paced courses) Verilog101:Verilog Foundations

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/verilog-101-verilog-foundations-online-course/

System Verilog 101: Design Constructs

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/systemverilog-101-sv101-design-constructs-online-course/

System Verilog 102: Verification Constructs

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/systemverilog-102-sv102-verification-constructs-online-course/

High Performance Project Management

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/high-performance-project-management-online-course/

Introduction to Embedded Linux Part I

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/introduction-to-embedded-linux-part-i-el201-online-course/

Embedded Linux Optimization - Tools and Techniques

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-optimization-tools-techniques-line-course/

Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-bsps-device-drivers-line-course/

Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/software-development-medical-device-manufacturers-line-course/

Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Electromagnetics

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/fundamental-mathematics-concepts-relating-electromagnetics-line-course/

Reliability Engineering for the Business World

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/reliability-engineering-business-world-line-course/

Design Thinking for Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Technical Work

http://ieeeboston.org/design-thinking-technical-work-line-course/

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Determining and Communicating Project Value Return on Investment (ROI) ROI Value Modeling TM for Decision Making Date & Time: Wednesday, June 20; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (Note new date!) Speaker: Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management Location:

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

Companies are demanding reliable financial measures of proposed projects’ value. Yet, project managers often don’t know how to identify, calculate, or communicate a project’s REAL ROI™ (Return on Investment). Traditional ROI calculations increasingly are being criticized for telling only part of the necessary story. The difficulty afflicts all types of projects but often is greatest in areas like IT, where benefits may seem intangible and frequent overruns impact estimates’ credibility. This interactive workshop reveals 22 pitfalls that render common ROI determinations meaningless and shows instead how to identify full-story key effects on revenue and expense variables, reliably quantify tangible and intangible costs and benefits, and convincingly communicate the business value of project investments. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to a real case.

* Quantifying intangibles, risk, flexibility, and opportunity. * Professionally presenting credible business value measurements so people pay attention. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for business, systems, and project managers as well as analysts, implementers, users, and others who must know the return on project investments. OUTLINE

WHAT MONEY HAS TO DO WITH IT Project Manager role with regard to ROI Situations demanding ROI, their issues Difficulty of making convincing arguments Linking ROI to the business case Value Modeling™ Relationship Diagram PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: Investment vs. expense Justification vs. objective analysis * The financial information that business decision Meanings of “It costs too much” Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) makers need and demand. Factors other than cost to be considered * ROI and related calculations, strengths, weak- Costs and benefits, revenues vs. expenses Return on Investment (ROI) calculations nesses, and common pitfalls. Net present value, discounted cash flow * Using ROI Value Modeling™ and Problem Pyra- Payback period, annualized return mid™ to fully identify relevant costs and benefits. Internal rate of return (IRR), hurdle rate ‘Telling the story’ not just ROI calculations

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Failing to quantify ‘intangibles’ and risk Scenario approach to showing benefits Mistakenly thinking ROI does not apply

DETERMINING MEANINGFUL BENEFITS Why it’s important to find the benefits first Treacy’s model of 5 revenue categories Problem Pyramid™ to find requirements Decision variable clarification chain Putting a dollar value on intangibles Opportunity, innovation, and flexibility Mandates, project with no apparent benefits ESTIMATING CREDIBLE COSTS Problem Pyramid™ ties costs to value Basing costs on implementation of design Business case framework Basic formula for estimating costs Main causes of poor estimates Top-down vs. bottom-up techniques Risks that afflict ROI calculations Three measurable ways to address risks Best-, worst-, most-likely-case scenarios Sources of parameter sizing assumptions Defining a reasonable scenario for success Getting reliable cost and revenue amounts REPORTING AND MONITORING Single vs. multiple scenario presentation Applying apples vs. apples, when you can’t Scenario assumptions and parameters No change vs. proposed scenarios’ ROIs Measuring intangibles’ monetary effects Continual, step-wise, and one-time changes

Percentage-likelihood impact adjustments Presenting with spreadsheets ROI Value Dashboard™ modeling tool Caution about commercial ROI calculators Using value modeling to improve decisions Dashboard and scorecard-type notification Capturing, calibrating with project actuals Adjusting appropriately during project

Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Payment received by June 6 IEEE Members $235 Non-members $260 Payment received after June 6 IEEE Members $260 Non-members $280

http://ieeeboston.org/determining-communicating

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Making You a Leader - Fast Track Date & Time:

Monday, June 18; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (Note new date!)

Location:

Hilton Hotel 2 Forbes Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Location:

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

We do projects to make change. Yet, change will not occur without leadership, and leaders are rare. Leaders make others want to do what the leader wants done. Leaders cause ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. Managing is not the same as leading, and titles do not make leaders. Seminars can teach you to manage, but they cannot teach you to be a leader. Rather, making a leader takes special techniques—such as our personal development clinics—that can change deepseated behaviors learned over a lifetime.

ics use to change lifetime learning and make leaders. • How to employ those special techniques in a follow-on mini-clinic to develop the leadership skills they need to make their projects successful.

However, since clinics usually last about ten weeks, this mini-clinic was devised as a more convenient alternative. This format places responsibility upon the participant to carry out an extended informal follow-on program after completion of the formal seminar workshop session.

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS & ROLE How leadership looks and feels Management vs. leadership Leadership components of project success Basic leadership practices; power sources Real change leaders in organizations

During the follow-on period, the participant uses time-condensed methods that simulate the lifetime learning which makes a leader. Therefore, commitment to carrying out these exercises is essential for successful transformation.

TEAMS AND LEADERSHIP Everyone feels leadership is lacking Everyone thinks s/he is a leader Results, not actions or intent Workgroups, teams, and leaders Situational leadership styles Coaching and sports analogies to projects

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: • Leadership characteristics and practices that are essential for project and personal success. • Differences between management and leadership, how they conflict, and why leaders are so rare. • Behaviors leaders use to influence others, up and down, to want to do what the leader wants them to do • Special techniques personal development clin-

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for business and systems professionals who want to improve their ability to lead and influence other people.

INSPIRING AND MOTIVATING Gaining commitment to project success Communicating that influences others Addressing negativism and groupthink Conscious and unconscious messages Greatest management principle Hierarchy of needs effects on projects Hygiene factors vs. motivators

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Helping project players get their rewards Influencing up and down without authority Inspiring the extra efforts projects need Energizing the project team SHARED VISIONS Relating values and vision to projects Getting others to embrace one’s vision Developing a motivating project vision WHERE AND HOW LEADERS ARE MADE Born or made? How do we know? Habits of thought that affect project success Overcoming self-limiting lifetime learning Leader’s critical success factors Traditional education doesn’t make leaders Special way—personal development clinics SETTING AND ACCOMPLISHING GOALS S.M.A.R.T. goals for self and project Action plans to achieve your goals Visualizing and emotionalizing DEFINING THE FOLLOW-ON PROGRAM Clarifying project leadership objectives Breaking into prioritized subgoals Establishing rewarding daily achievements Special techniques to change habits

CARRYING OUT THE MINI-CLINIC Working with a follow-up support structure Mapping results regularly to goals Objectively recording leadership changes Self-leadership through the process Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals. Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, June 11, 2017 Payment received by June 4 IEEE Members $235 Non-members $260 Payment received after june 4 IEEE Members $260 Non-members $280

http://ieeeboston.org/event/making-leader-fast-track-leader-want-need/

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Proactive User Acceptance Testing TM -Confident Competence The Testing Users Need to be Confident the Software they Depend on Works Date & Time:

Thursday, June 21; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (Note new date!)

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Location:

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

Projects aren’t complete until users/customers are sure the systems they depend on actually meet business requirements, work properly, and truly help them do their jobs efficiently and effectively. However, users seldom are confident or comfortable testing system acceptability. Project Managers and Testing professionals need to know how to guide and facilitate effective acceptance testing without usurping the user’s primary role. This intensive interactive seminar shows what users need to know to confidently make the best use of their time planning and conducting acceptance tests that catch more defects at the traditional tail-end of development, while also contributing in appropriate ways to reducing the number of errors that get through the development process for them to catch in UAT. Exercises give practice using practical methods and techniques. PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: * Appropriate testing roles for users, developers, and professional testers; and what each shouldn’t test. * How Proactive TestinTM throughout the life cycle reduces the number of errors left to find in UAT. * Key testing concepts, techniques, and strategies that facilitate adaptation to your situation. * Systematically expanding acceptance crite-

ria to an acceptance test plan, test designs, and test cases. * Supplementing with requirements-based tests, use cases, and high-level structural white box tests.* Techniques for obtaining/capturing test data and carrying out acceptance tests. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for business managers and system users responsible for conducting user acceptance testing of systems they must depend on, as well as for system and project managers, analysts, developers, quality/testing professionals, and auditors. ROLE OF USER ACCEPTANCE TESTING Why users may resist involvement Making users confident about testing Objectives, types, and scope of testing Acceptance testing as user’s self-defense Why technical tests don’t catch all the errors Essential elements of effective testing CAT-Scan ApproachTM to find more errors Proactive TestingTM Life Cycle model Separate technical and acceptance test paths Place of UAT in overall test structure Making sure important tests are done first Developer/tester/user test responsibilities DEFINING ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA Defining acceptance test strategy up-front Source and role of acceptance criteria

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5 elements criteria should address Functionality the user must demonstrate How much, how often user must test Determining system quality Who should carry out acceptance tests How acceptance tests should be performed Added benefit, revealing requirements errors

DESIGNING ACCEPTANCE TEST PLANS Expanding the acceptance criteria Allocating criteria to system design Refining the design to catch oversights Checklist of common problems to test Equivalence classes and boundary values Making quality factors (attributes) testable Structural testing applicable to users GUI features that always need to be tested Defining requirements-based tests Constructing use cases Cautions about use case pitfalls One- and two-column use case formats Turning use cases into tests Consolidating tests into efficient test scripts CARRYING OUT ACCEPTANCE TESTS Differentiating test cases and test data Traps that destroy value of acceptance tests Warning about conversions Documentation, training, Help tests Configuration, installation, localization Security, backup, recovery tests

Suitability of automating acceptance testing Performance, stress, load testing Issues on creating test conditions, data Capturing results, determining correctness Userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defect tracking and metrics

Speakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Thursday, June 14, 2018 Payment received by June 7 IEEE Members $235 Non-members $260 Payment received after June 7 IEEE Members $260 Non-members $280

http://ieeeboston.org/proactive-user-acceptance

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Writing Agile User Story and Acceptance Test Requirements Date & Time:

Tuesday, June 19; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (Note new date!)

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Location:

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

Everyone complains that poor requirements are the major cause of project problems. Yet, like the weather, nobody does much about it, at least not effectively. Traditional approaches advocate writing voluminous requirements documents that too often don’t seem to help much and may even contribute to difficulties. Agile goes to the opposite extreme, relying on brief requirements in the form of threeline user stories that fit on the front an index card and a few user story acceptance criteria that fit on the card’s back. Surprise, as Mark Twain noted, in some ways it’s even harder to write Agile’s brief requirements effectively. This interactive workshop reveals reasons user stories and their acceptance tests can fall short of their hype, explains critical concepts needed for effectiveness, and uses a real case to provide participants guided practice writing and evaluating user stories and their acceptance criteria/tests.

* What else is necessary to produce working software that provides real value. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for product owners, analysts, developers, and other Agile (and other) project team members who are or should be involved in defining requirements.

AGILE, USER STORY FUNDAMENTALS Agile Manifesto’s relevant points Characterization of traditional approaches Waterfall and big up-front requirements Agile’s sprints and backlogs alternative Agile project team roles User story “As a <role>…” (Card) User story acceptance criteria (Confirmation) Estimating user story size Splitting and refining Prioritizing and allocating to backlogs/sprint PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: Constructing/implementing (Conversations) Reviewing, retrospectives * Major sources of poor requirements that Grooming backlog and reprioritizing cause defects, rework, and cost/time overruns. Exercise: Write Needed User Stories Exercise: Define their Acceptance Criteria * How Agile user stories and their acceptance Exercise: Review Your User Stories/Criteria criteria/tests address these issues. REQUIREMENTS ARE REQUIREMENTS— * Difficulties that still afflict requirements in OR MAYBE NOT Agile projects and why they persist. User stories are backlog items, features * Writing more effective user stories and ac- Chicken and egg relation to use cases ceptance criteria/tests. Issues and inconsistencies Business vs. product/system requirements

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“Levels Model” of requirements Other mistaken presumptions Requirements overview Where user stories should fit, do fit instead Conversation conundrum

WRITING MORE SUITABLE USER STORIES Problem Pyramid™ tool to get on track Exercise: Using the Problem Pyramid™ Exercise: Business Requirement User Stories Issues identifying requirements Product owner and business analyst roles Project team participation Dictating vs. discovering Data gathering and analysis Planning an effective interview Controlling with suitable questions Then a miracle occurs… AND USER STORY ACCEPTANCE TESTS Missed and unclear criteria Turning criteria into tests, issues How many tests are really needed Test design techniques Checklists and guidelines Decision trees, decision tables Boundary testing Testing is main means to control risk Defects and new user stories Testing that user story focus misses

Reactive vs. proactive risk analysis Given, when, then format Exercise: Write User Story Acceptance Criteria Exercise: Design their Tests Exercise: Review Your User Stories/Tests Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals. Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Payment received by June 5 IEEE Members $235 Non-members $260 Payment received after June 5 IEEE Members $260 Non-members $280

http://ieeeboston.org/writing-agile-user-story

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Developing Reusable Test Designs Be an Instant Expert--Run More, and More Thorough, Tests in Less Time Date & Time:

Friday, June 22; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (Note new date!)

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Location:

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

Would you like to be an instant testing expert, able to start testing effectively in new situations without delay? And would you like to spend more of your time running tests and less of your time creating the tests? Reusable test designs are a little-known but powerful test planning/design tool that make it possible for you to run more effective test cases in less time. This interactive seminar workshop shows you how to apply a systematic structured Proactive Testing™ approach that first enables you to design much more thorough tests than traditional methods. Then, you’ll discover how to convert your test designs into reusable test designs that you can apply instantly in new situations. You’ll develop several reusable test designs in class and be ready to add more to your toolkit back on the job. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to an actual case.

• Applying reusable test designs to jumpstart your testing with instant expertise and effectiveness. • Quickly and reliably selecting the subset of test cases suitable for scale and risk. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for testers, managers, analysts, designers, programmers, auditors, and users who plan, oversee, and/or carry out testing of software products.

PROACTIVE TEST DESIGN BENEFITS Proactive vs traditional reactive testing Proactive Testing™ Life Cycle advantages IEEE Standard for Test Documentation Often-overlooked key to proper prioritizing Systematic drill-down strategy Master and detailed test plans Participants will learn: Test design specifications Test case specifications • How test designs fit into the overall test planning How taking time to structure saves time structure and provide special advantages Structuring to make test sets manageable Facilitating reconstruction of test data • Systematic reliably repeatable methods for Taking off the blinders to allow selectivity identifying test designs to test a given system. Re-using instead of rebuilding test designs Instant expertise for testing new situations • Checklists and guidelines that enable you to spot the conditions traditional methods overlook. IDENTIFYING NEEDED TEST DESIGNS Functional (black box) testing • Converting your project-specific test designs Three-level approach to functional testing into reusable test designs you can use for other Keys for thoroughness systems. Breaking down to manageable pieces

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Functionality Matrix technique Use case perspective Technical software actions Test design specifications that are needed

DESIGNING TESTS MORE THOROUGHLY How designing adds thoroughness Traditional test design still misses a lot Focused brainstorming for a better start Checklists and guidelines to fill the gaps Tests based on data formats Coverage of data and process models Decision trees and tables Concerns common to all types of testing Equivalence classes and partitioning Ranges and boundary testing GUI and navigation issues Often-overlooked other dimensions to test Formal/informal test design specifications Extracting the reusable elements Enhancing with system-specific tests Link to driving effective automated tests SPECIFYING (REUSABLE) TEST CASES Translating test designs into test cases Selecting scaled subset based on risk Reusable test case specifications Other essential test case component

Finding and creating test data Test script and matrix formats Simple and sophisticated automation

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Friday, June 15, 2018 Payment received by June 8 IEEE Members $235 Non-members $260 Payment received after June 8 IEEE Members $260 Non-members $280

http://ieeeboston.org/developing-reusable-test-designs

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Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers An intensive two-day course Time & Date: Location:

8:30AM - 4:30PM, Wednesday & Thursday, April 11 & 12, 2018 (14 hours of instruction!)

Speaker:

Steve Rakitin, President, Software Quality Consulting, Inc.

Hilton Hotel, 2 Forbes Road, Woburn, MA

OVERVIEW Developing software in compliance with FDA, EU regulations and international standards is challenging. This two-day intensive course provides practical guidance and suggestions for developing software that complies with applicable FDA and EU regulations, guidance documents and international standards such as IEC 62304 and ISO 14971. The focus of this course is interpreting Design Controls for software. Each section of the Design Controls regulation (820.30) is discussed from the software perspective. Corresponding requirements from IEC 62304 are woven into the flow. In-depth discussion of critical topics such as Requirements, Software Verification & Validation, Risk Management and Fault Tree Analysis are included. In addition, techniques for validating software development tools and software used in Manufacturing and Quality Systems are also discussed. Interactive group exercises are included to facilitate discussion and learning. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Software and firmware engineers, software managers, RA/QA staff, validation engineers, and project managers. Anyone interested in learning how to develop medical device software in compliance with regulations, standards and guidance documents. COURSE OUTLINE • Introduction –Medical Device Definitions – FDA and EU –Regulatory Roadmap and FDA/EU Device Classification Schemes

–FDA Regulations and Guidance Documents for Software –Standards – ISO 13485, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, EN-14971, IEC 60601, and IEC 62366-1 –All Software is Defective

•Interpreting Design Controls for Software –Software Development Models –Design and Development Planning –Design Inputs •About Requirements… •Requirements Exercise –Design Outputs –Design Reviews –Design Verification • Software Verification Techniques –Design Validation • Software Validation Process –Design Transfer –Design Changes –Design History File • Validation of… –Software Tools used to develop Medical Device Software –Software used in Manufacturing –Software used in Quality Systems •

Risk Management –Standards and Regulations –Terms and Concepts –Risk Management Process –Risk Management Tools and Techniques

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• Fault Tree Exercise –Data Collection and Analysis –Documentation Requirements • Summary • Comprehensive reference materials included Speaker Bio: Steven R. Rakitin has over 40 years experience as a software engineer including 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. He has worked with over 85 medical device manufacturers worldwide, from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has written several papers on medical device software risk management as well as a book titled: Software Verification & Validation for Practitioners and Managers. He received a BSEE from Northeastern University and an MSCS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He earned certifications from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as a Software Quality Engineer (CSQE)

and Quality Auditor (CQA). He is a Senior Life member of IEEE and a member of MassMEDIC. He is on the Editorial Review Board for the ASQ Journal Software Quality Professional. As President of Software Quality Consulting Inc., he helps medical device companies comply with FDA regulations, guidance documents, and international standards in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Friday, March 23, 2018 Payment received by March 19 IEEE Members $495 Non-members $535 Payment received after March 19 IEEE Members $535 Non-members $565

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Fundamentals of Real-Time Operating Systems Time & Date: Location:

6 - 9PM, Mondays, March 19, 27, April 2, 9 (12 hours of instruction!)

Speaker:

Mike McCullogh, President, RTETC, LLC.

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

Course Summary - This course introduces the basics of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSes) using VxWorks and Linux as examples. The course focuses on the primary principles of RTOSes including determinism, real-time scheduling, interrupt latency and fast context switching as well as time and space partitioning in hard real-time environments. The first part of the course focuses on acquiring an understanding of microkernel and memory architectures for Real-Time including scheduling, signals, system calls, synchronization, inter-process communications and interrupt handling. The latter part of the course covers considerations for timing, memory management, device drivers, booting, debugging and deployment of Real-Time embedded systems.

• To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next RTOS project Hardware and Software Requirements - The student should have a working Linux desktop environment either directly installed or in a virtualization environment or have access to a development environment for a Real-Time Operating System such as VxWorks. An Embedded Linux target hardware platform is useful but not absolutely required for this course. Outline

Embedded Development Basics Embedded Systems Characteristics Embedded Real-Time Systems Who Should Attend - The course is designed for re- Real-Time Enough al-time engineers who are using or intending to use a Embedded Linux and Real-Time Real-Time Operating System. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Real-Time Operating System Basics RTOSes. This course will clearly demonstrate both the Microkernel Architecture strengths and weaknesses of the Real-Time Operating Microkernel Scheduling Systems in Embedded Systems. Determinism Rate Monotonic Analysis and Fixed Priority Scheduling Course Objectives Latency and Latency Measurements • To provide a basic understanding of Real-Time Fast Context Switching Requirements Real-Time Memory Architectures • To understand the complexities of RTOS sched- Time and Space Partitioning and ARINC uling and synchronization Multiprocessor Basics • To learn how to configure, boot, test and deploy Amdahl’s Law real-time embedded systems

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RTOS Kernel Overview Real-Time Scheduling and Task Management Signals and System Calls Synchronization Inter-Processor Communications (IPC) Interrupt Handling Error Handling Timing and Timers Real-Time Memory Management Real-Time Scheduling OS Scheduling Types Pre-emptive Multitasking Typical Scheduling Issues VxWorks Scheduling Linux Scheduling Linux Threads Tasks and Task-Specific Data (TSD) VxWorks Real-Time Processes (RTPs) Measuring Task and Thread Performance Signals in Embedded RTOSes System Calls in Embedded RTOSes Synchronization Via Global Data Via Semaphores, Files and Signals Mutexes in VxWorks and Linux Linux Futexes Software Watchdog Timers Inter-Process Communications (IPC) More Semaphores Message Queues Shared Memory Pipes and FIFOs Remote Procedure Calls Networking Interrupt and Exception Handling Basic Interrupt Process VxWorks intLib and excLib Routines You Can Call From Interrupt Context Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs) VxWorks and Linux ISRs Bottom Halves in Linux

Deferring Work Tasklets and Work Queues in Linux Helper Tasks and Threads Error Handling Error Handling Approaches errno and perror strerror and strerror_r Resets, OOPS, Panics and Segmentation Faults Error Logging Approaches Timing How Linux Tells Time Kernel, POSIX and Interval Timers High-Resolution Timers (HRTs) Watchdog Timers

Sleeping

Sleep Waiting and Spinlocks Using Timers Embedded Recommendations for Timing Memory Management and Paging The VxWorks Memory Model The First-Fit Memory Algorithm VxWorks memLib and memPartLib Linux, Memory and Demand Paging Mapping Device Memory The Slab Allocators Memory Barriers The OOM Killer Reserving and Locking Memory Memory in Embedded Systems Device Drivers File Descriptors in VxWorks The VxWorks IO Subsystem VxWorks ioLib and iosLib The 5 Basic Device Driver Types File Descriptors in Linux The UNIX Device Driver Model Major and Minor Numbers The New Device Driver Model Booting VxWorks Boot Example VxWorks Configuration Files

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VxWorks Application Startup The Root Filesystem in Linux Bootloaders and U-Boot Embedded Linux Boot Methods Building and Booting from SD Cards Real-Time Debugging Process-Level Debug GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger The VxWorks Debug Agent (WDB) A Remote Debug Example Printing and Logging System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc Filesystem in Linux Advanced Logging Methods Kernel Debugging Crash and Core Dumps Visualization Tools

System Architecture Design Approaches

Deploying VxWorks Systems VxWorks Systems Customization and Configuration VxWorks Field Upgrades Deploying Embedded Linux Linux Systems Customization and Configuration Choosing and Building the Root Filesystem Module Decisions Final IT Work Linux Field Upgrades

RTOS Trends Development Trends Monitoring Trends Testing Trends Some Final Recommendations Lecturer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. He has held a variety of software engineering positions at LynuxWorks, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems and Lockheed Sanders. RTETC, LLC provides Real-Time embedded training and consulting to many embedded systems companies. RTETC focuses on Real-Time operating systems (RTOS), Linux and Android solutions for the embedded systems market.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Monday, March 1, 2018 Payment received by March 5 IEEE Members $395 Non-members $430 Payment received after March 5 IEEE Members $430 Non-members $450

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Phased-Array and Adaptive-Array Fundamentals and Their Recent Advances Time & Date: 6 - 9PM, Mondays, March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 30, May 7, 14, 21 (Snow/make-up days June 4, 11) (24 hours of instruction!) Location: MITRE Corp., 202 Burlington Rd., Bedford, MA Speaker:

Dr. Eli Brookner, Raytheon, (Retired)

Text: Practical Phased Array Antenna Systems”, Dr. Eli Brookner (included with registration)

“Practical Phased Array Antenna Systems”, Dr. Eli Brookner, Editor, Artech House, 1991, Hardcover, 258 pages, List Price $179, Hardcover, 258 pages. Covers array fundamentals: phase and time-delay steering; grating lobes for 1- and 2-dimensional arrays; effects of errors and failures on gain, sidelobes and angle accuracy; array weighting, thinning, blindness, mutual coupling, elements, phase-shifters and feeds; limited field of view (LFOV) arrays; SPY-1; example design.

This course is based on the book entitled Practical Phased Array Antenna Systems by Dr. Eli Brookner. The book covers array basics and fundamentals which change little with time. The course, the book and the notes will provide an ideal introduction to the principles of phased array antenna design and adaptive arrays. The course material and notes covers developments in phased arrays updated to 2018. With the explicitly tutorial approach the course and book offers a concise, introductory level survey of the fundamentals without dwelling on extensive mathematical derivations or abstruse theory. Instead a physical feel will be given. The book provides extensive curves, tables and illustrative examples. Covered in easy terms will be sidelobe cancellation, Cognitive Adaptive Array Processing (CAAP) which provides optimum full adaptive array processing without suffering its computation complexity and other disadvantages. The mystery will be taken out of the new Mulitple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) array radar and Space-Time

Adaptive Array (STAP) for airborne platforms. STAP will be explained and related to the displaced phase center antenna (DPCA). All Attendees of the class will receive a trial license of MATLAB and Phased Array System Toolbox from MathWorks in addition to a set of examples which help demonstrate key array concepts covered in the course. This course is intended for the engineer or scientist not familiar with phased-array antennas as well as the antenna specialist who wants to learn about other aspects of phased-array antenna systems as well as get the latest developments in array systems, such as: MIMO, metamaterial arrays, Digital Beamforming (DBF), Extreme MMIC arrays, stealthing and cloaking. The major emphasis will be on the system aspects of phased-arrays.

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Lecture #1. Monday March 19; Phased Array Fundamentals: Electronically Scanned Array (ESA) explained with tube COBRA DANE used as example. Covered will be: Phased Steering, Switched-Line Phase Steering; Time Delay Steering, Subarraying, Array Weighting, Monopulse, Duplexing, Array Thinning, Embedded Element, dual polarized circular waveguide element, advantage of triangular lattice over square lattice, Tour of COBRA DANE (6 stories high) via color slides. Lecture #2. Monday March 26; Linear Array Fundamentals: Conditions for no grating lobes; beamwidth vs scan angle; sine space; Array Factor; sidelobe level vs antenna beamwidth; directivity; antenna efficiency factors; array weightings; array frequency scanning; array bandwith. Lecture #3. Monday , April 2; Planar Arrays: sinespace (sinÎą-sinĂ&#x; and u-v space); grating lobes location for triangular and rectangular lattice; very useful bell curve approximation; array thinning system issues. 2nd Generation Active Phased Arrays: Solid state active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs) covered using PAVE PAWS as example. Also covered are: T/R Module, Cross Bent Dipole Element, Array Blindness, Tour of PAVE PAWS (6 stories) via color slides given. 3rd Generation AESAs: These use microwave integrated circuits (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits

[MMIC]): THAAD (TPY-2), SPY-3, IRIDIUM, F-15 APQ-63(V)2, APG-79, XBR, AMDR and upgraded Patriot. Patriot now a 2015 state-of-the-art 3rd generation AESA radar system it now having MMIC GaN AESAs providing 360o coverage. S-band AMDR provides 30 times the sensitivity and can handle 30 times the number of tracks as the AEGIS SPY-1D(V). Lecture #4. Monday April 9; Array Errors: Effects of element phase and amplitude element errors and element failures; simple physical derivation of error effects given; paired echo theory; subarray errors; A/D quantization errors; examples. Radiating Elements: Waveguide; dipole; slotted waveguide; microstrip patch; stacked patch; notch (wideband); spiral; matching (wide-angle); waveguide simulator; practical limitations, mutual coupling, array blindness; scattering matrix; design procedure; polarization miss-match loss. Lecture #5. Monday April 30; Array Feeds: Corporate and space fed; Reactive (lossless) and matched (Wilkinson); even/ odd node analysis. Serial; Ladder; Lopez; Blass; Radial, Butler matrix; microstrip/stripline; Rotman Lens on SLQ-32; PATRIOT space-fed array; reflectarray. 4TH Generation Digital Beam Forming (DBF) AESAs: Provides reduced search power and occupancy by nearly a factor of 2 (3dB) while im-

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proving the search angle accuracy, like by about 40%; Cognitive radar enabler; Ultra low antenna sidelobes enabler; Israel, Thales, Australia and Lockheed Martin (LM) AESAs have an A/D for every AESA receive element channel (172,000 for LM system); Raytheon developing element level mixer-less direct RF A/D reconfigurable between S and X-band in microseconds; MOOREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LAW: Potential future continuation of Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law: via Spintronics, Memristor, Graphene, Quantum Computing.

aging: Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Lincoln-Lab./ MA-COM and South Korea developing low cost flat panel S and X-band AESAs using commercial components, practices and printed circuit boards (PCBs); Materials: GaN can now put 5X to 10X the power of GaAs in same footprint. Metamaterials: Man made material which provides properties not found in nature. Coating of target with metamaterial has potential to make it invisible or stealthy. Has promise for: low cost 2-D ESAs for satellite internet communications; for cell towers, for radars.

Lecture #6. Monday May 7; Limited Field-ofView (LFOV) Arrays: Explained using simple high school physics. Hemispherical Coverage Array: Dome Antenna. System Considerations: sequential detection, beam shape loss; receiver and A/D dynamic range; polarization miss-match loss; AESA noise figure and system temperature taking into account array mismatch. Phase Shifters: Diode switchedline, hybrid-coupled, loaded-line; ferrite phaseshifters: non-reciprocal latching; diode vs ferrite; MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and its potential for a low cost electronically scanned arrays (ESAs). AESA Breakthroughs - Part 1: Extreme MMIC: Can now put on single chip 256-Element 60 GHz Transmit Phased Array. Such arrays to cost only few dollars. Low Cost Pack-

Lecture #7, May 14. Sidelobe Cancellers (SLC): The simple si n g l e - l o o p , feed-forward canceller is introduced in easy physical terms. This is followed by a discussion of the simple single-loop feedback canceller with and without hard limiting. Multiple-loop SLC (MSLC) covered. Adaptive Arrays: The optimum Sample Matrix Inversion (SMI) algorithm for a fully adaptive array is developed using a very simple derivation. Cognitive Adaptive Array Processing (CAAP) introduced which lets one achieve the performance of SMI array without its disadvantages of the need for a large number of training samples, large computation load and sidelobe degradation. Displaced Phase Center Array (DPCA) and Space Time Array Processing (STAP) algorithm explained in simple terms and related. Ubiquitous least squares estimation (LSE) covered and applied to MSLC and tracking. Briefly introduce use of Gram-Schmidt, Givens and Householder orthonormal transformation methods of LSE. Systolic array implementations given. Lecture #8. Monday May 21; AESA Breakthroughs - Part 2: 5th Generation Ultra Wideband (UWB) AE-

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SAs: C to Ku band. MIMO Array Radars: Explained in simple physical terms rather than with heavy math. Gives attendees an understanding of where it makes sense to use. Contrary to what is claimed MIMO array radars do not provide 1, 2 or 3 orders of magnitude better resolution and accuracy than conventional array radars; also contrary to claims made MIMO should not provide better minimum detectable velocity for airborne radars. MIMO and Jamming: MIMO does not provide better barrage-noise-jammer, repeater-jammer or hot-clutter rejection than conventional array radars. Potential for automobile radars and radar combining covered. Technology and Algorithms: A dual polarized, low profile, (l/40), wideband (20:1) antenna can be built using tightly coupled dipole antennas (TCDA); spurious free dynamic range (SFDR): Lincoln Lab in-

creases SFDR of receiver plus A/D by 40 dB; Low Cost Printed Electronics: 1.6 GHz printed diodes achieved. Electrical and Optical Signals on Same Chip: Will allow data transfer at the speed of light; IR transparent in silicon. Biodegradable Arrays of Transistors or LEDs: Imbedded under skin for detecting cancer or low glucose. Quantum Radar: Has potential to defeat stealth targets!!! Your Registration Includes: 1 textbook; 15 Reprints; over 800 Vugraphs; trial license of MATLAB and Phased Array System Toolbox from MathWorks with examples demonstrating key array concepts covered in the course. Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Monday, March 12, 2018 Payment received by March 5 IEEE Members $300 Non-members $340 Payment received after March 5 IEEE Members $340 Non-members $370

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Embedded Linux BSPs and Device Drivers Time & Date:

6 - 9PM, Mondays, April 16, 23, 30, May 7

Speaker:

Mike McCullough, RTETC, LLC

Location:

TBD, Woburn - Burlington, MA Area

Course Summary - This 4-day technical training course provides advanced training in the development of Embedded Linux Board Support Packages (BSPs), Device Drivers and Distributions. The first part of the course focuses on BSP and Software Development Kit (SDK) development in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on application performance measurement and improvement. The latter part of the course covers Embedded Linux Device Driver development including key device driver decisions and deployment considerations for Embedded Linux BSPs. Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real-time engineers who are developing Embedded Linux BSPs and Device Drivers for Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Linux BSP and Device Driver development. Course Objectives • To gain an understanding of the complexities of BSP and SDK development and their uses in Embedded Linux systems. • To provide a basic understanding of the Linux I/O Subsystem and the Device Driver Models provided with Embedded Linux distributions. • To gain an in-depth understanding of character-based device drivers in Embedded Linux • To understand key device driver subsystems including relatively slow I/O interconnects such as I2C, SPI and USB as well as high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.0 and PCIe • To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

Course Schedule Day 1 Getting Started with Embedded Linux Linux and the GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online) Embedded Linux BSP Development Basics BSP Requirements U-Boot and Bootloader Development Basic BSP Development Files and Filesystem Support The I/O Subsystem: Talking to Hardware Memory Management and Paging Error Handling in Embedded Linux BSPs Timing and Timers Interrupt Handling in BSPs BSP Deployment Issues and Practices Embedded Linux SDK Basics The 3 Pieces of an SDK Embedded Linux Distributions The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Other Embedded Linux Development Tools Library Support Glibc and Alternatives SDK Deployment and Support Debugging GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debug Tools An Abatron Board Bring-Up Example An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Advanced Debug with printk, syslogd and LTTng System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc Filesystem

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Advanced Logging Methods KGDB and KDB Crash Dumps Course Schedule Day 2 Configuring Embedded Linux Config Methods Config Syntax Adding Code to the Linux Kernel Booting Embedded Linux The Linux Boot Process NFS and RAMdisk Booting Root and Flash File System Development Building the RAMdisk Busybox Development Testing and Debug of Embedded Linux BSPs Kernel Debug and Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump The Linux Test Project (LTP) Performance Tuning Embedded Linux BSPs User Mode Linux and Virtualization Measuring Embedded Linux BSP Performance Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations BootLoader Optimizations Boot Time Measurements Effective Memory and Flash Usage Filesystem Performance Issues Some Ideas on Performance Measurement Course Schedule Day 3 The Original Device Driver Model The fops struct and Char Drivers The inode and dentry structs Major and Minor Numbers Embedding Channel Information Deferring Work The /proc Filesystem Configuring the Device Driver Modularization Revisited The New Device Driver Model An Object-Oriented Approach Platform Devices and Drivers Subsystem Registration

The Probe and Init Functions The Show and Store Functions The /sys Filesystem Configuring the New Device Driver

Comparing the Two Driver Models

The Flattened Device Tree (FDT) openBoot and its Effect on Embedded Linux The Device Tree Script (dts) File The Device Tree Compiler (dtc) The Device Tree Blob (dtb) File Building a dtb File Hybrid Device Drivers Other fops Functions The Need for Ioctl A Simulated Char Device Driver The SIM Device Driver Initialization Open and Close Read and Write The /proc Driver Interface MMAP Support Course Schedule Day 4 Linux Device Driver Subsystems Serial Drivers The RTC Subsystem Watchdogs I2C & SPI Block Devices PCI USB VME Video Sound Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Missing? Memory Technology Devices What is an MTD? NAND vs NOR Flash Interfaces The Common Flash Interface (CFI) Driver and User Modules Flash Filesystems Drivers in User Space Accessing I/O Regions

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Lecturer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at LynuxWorks, Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based software development tools, training and consulting services for the embedded systems market.

Accessing Memory Regions User Mode SCSI, USB and I2C UIO High-Speed Interconnects PCIe GigE iSCSI Infiniband FibreChannel Serial RapidIO Debugging Device Drivers kdb, kgdb and JTAG Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump Kernel Profiling User Mode Linux and Kernel Hacking

Performance Tuning Device Drivers Some Final Recommendations

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, April 9, 2018 Payment received by April 2 IEEE Members $395 Non-members $430 Payment received after April 2 IEEE Members $430 Non-members $450

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More Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Wireless Communications Time and Dates: 6 - 9PM, Wednesdays, March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 25 Location: Hilton Hotel, 2 Forbes Road, Woburn, MA Speaker:

Dan Boschen, Microsemi

Course Summary This course is a continuation of the IEEE course “DSP for Wireless Communications” also taught by Dan Boschen, detailing digital signal processing most applicable to practical real world problems and applications in radio communication systems. Students need not have taken the Part I course if they are familiar with basic DSP concepts.

or have been sufficiently exposed to basic signal processing concepts such as Fourier, Laplace, and Z-transforms, Digital filter (FIR/IIR) structures, and representation of complex digital and analog signals in the time and frequency domains. Please contact Dan at boschen@loglin.com if you are uncertain about your background or if you would like more information on the course.

This course brings together core DSP concepts to address signal processing challenges encountered in radios and modems for modern wireless communications. Specific areas covered include carrier and timing recovery, equalization, automatic gain control, and considerations to mitigate the effects of RF and channel distortions such as multipath, phase noise and amplitude/phase offsets.

Benefits of Attending/ Goals of Course: Attendees will gain a strong intuitive understanding of the practical and common signal processing implementations found in modern radio and modem architectures and be able to apply these concepts directly to communications system design.

Dan builds an intuitive understanding of the underlying mathematics through the use of graphics, visual demonstrations, and real world applications for mixed signal (analog/digital) modern transceivers. This course is applicable to DSP algorithm development with a focus on meeting practical hardware development challenges, rather than a tutorial on implementations with DSP processors. Target Audience: All engineers involved in or interested in signal processing for wireless communications. Students should have either taken the first part of this course “DSP for Wireless Communications”

Topics / Schedule: Class 1: DSP Review, Radio Architectures, Transforms, Mapping to Digital, Pulse Shaping, Eye Diagrams Class 2: ADC Receiver, CORDIC Rotator, Digital Down Converters, Numerically Controlled Oscillators Class 3: Digital Control Loops; Output Power Control, Automatic Gain Control Class 4: Digital Control Loops; Carrier and Timing Recovery, Sigma Delta Converters

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Class 5: RF Signal Impairments, Equalization and Compensation, Linear Feedback Shift Registers Speaker’s Bio: Dan Boschen has a MS in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University, with over 20 years of experience in system and hardware design for radio transceivers and modems. He has held various positions at Signal Technologies, MITRE, Airvana and Hittite Microwave designing and developing transceiver hardware from baseband to antenna for wireless communications systems. Dan is currently at Microsemi (formerly Symmetricom) leading design efforts for advanced frequency and time solutions.

For more background information, please view Dan’s Linked-In page at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danboschen

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Monday, March 19, 2018 Payment received by March 19 IEEE Members $340 Non-members $375 Payment received after March 19 IEEE Members $375 Non-members $440

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If you have an expertise that you feel might be of interest to our members, please submit that to our online course proposal form on the section’s website (www.ieeeboston.org) and click on the course proposal link (direct course proposal form link is http://ieeeboston.org/course-proposals/ . Alternatively, you may contact the IEEE Boston Section office at ieeebostonsection@gmail.com or 781 245 5405. • Honoraria can be considered for course lecturers • Applications oriented, practical focused courses are best (all courses should help attendees expand their knowledge based and help them do their job better after completing a course • Courses should be no more than 2 full days, or 18 hours for a multi-evening course • Your course will be publicized to over 10,000 local engineers • You will be providing a valuable service to your profession • Previous lecturers include: Dr. Eli Brookner, Dr. Steven Best, Colin Brench, to name a few.

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Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers (Online Edition) Students have access to this self-paced course for 90 days!!

Registration Fee: $350

New Online Course

Course Summary - This video course provides advanced training in the development of Embedded Linux Board Support Packages (BSPs) and Device Drivers. The first part of the course focuses on BSP and Software Development Kit (SDK) development in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on application performance measurement and improvement. The latter part of the course covers Embedded Linux Device Driver development including key device driver decisions and deployment considerations for Course Schedule Embedded Linux BSPs. Getting Started with Embedded Linux Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real-time engineers who are developing Embedded Linux BSPs and Device Drivers for Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Linux BSP and Device Driver development. Course Objectives • To gain an understanding of the complexities of BSP and SDK development and their uses in Embedded Linux systems. • To provide a basic understanding of the Linux I/O Subsystem and the Device Driver Models provided with Embedded Linux distributions. • To gain an in-depth understanding of character-based device drivers in Embedded Linux • To understand key device driver subsystems including relatively slow I/O interconnects such as I2C, SPI and USB as well as high-speed interfaces such as Ethernet, USB 3.0 and PCIe

Embedded Linux Training Overview Linux Terminology, History and the GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online) BSP Requirements U-Boot and Bootloader Development Embedded Linux BSP Development Basics Basic BSP Development Files and Filesystem Support The I/O Subsystem: Talking to Hardware Memory Management and Paging Error Handling in Embedded Linux BSPs Timing and Timers Interrupt and Exception Handling in BSPs BSP Deployment Issues and Practices Embedded Linux SDK Basics The 3 Pieces of an SDK Embedded Linux Distributions and the GNU Compiler

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Collection (GCC) Other Embedded Linux Development Tools Library Support, Glibc and Alternatives SDK Deployment and Support Debugging GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debug and Test Tools An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Advanced Debug with printk and syslogd System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and sys Filesystems Advanced Logging Methods KGDB and KDB Crash Dumps Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Configuring Embedded Linux Config Methods Config Syntax Adding Code to the Linux Kernel Booting Embedded Linux Processor Startup Initial Functions The initcalls Using __init Functions NFS Booting Root File Systems RAMdisk Booting with initrd RAMdisk Booting with initramfs initrd vs initramfs Root File System Development Busybox Development Building a RAMdisk for an initrd Building a RAMdisk for an initramfs Flash File System Development

BootLoader Optimizations Boot Time Measurements Effective Memory and Flash Usage Filesystem Performance Measurement Some Ideas on Performance Measurement

The Original UNIX Device Driver Model The fops and file structs The inode and dentry structs Major and Minor Numbers Embedding Channel Information Deferring Work The /proc Filesystem Configuring the Device Driver A Simulated Device Driver Modularization Revisited The Evolution of a New Driver Model The Initial Object-Oriented Approach Platform Devices and Drivers A Generic Subsystem Model The Generic Subsystem Model in Detail Subsystem Registration The Probe and Init Functions The Show and Store Functions User Access via the /sys Filesystem Configuring the New Device Driver The udev Linux Application Comparing the Two Driver Models The Flattened Device Tree (FDT) openBoot and its Effect on Embedded Linux The Device Tree Script (dts) File The Device Tree Compiler (dtc) The Device Tree Blob (dtb) File Building a dtb File Hybrid Device Drivers Other fops Functions Testing and Debug of Embedded Linux BSPs The Need for Ioctl Kernel Debug and Kernel Probes Linux Device Driver Subsystems Kexec and Kdump Direct Connect Device Drivers The Linux Test Project (LTP) Serial/Console Drivers, I2C & SPI Performance Tuning Embedded Linux BSPs Real-Time Clocks and Watchdogs Virtualization GPIO and the Pinmux Measuring Embedded Linux BSP Performance Flash MTDs and Direct Memory Access Common Considerations USB, Power and CPU Management Uncommon Considerations Video and Audio

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PCI and VME Block Devices RAMdisk and Flash Filesystems MMCs and SD Cards Network Device Drivers MAC and PHY Device Drivers net_device and net_device_stats Network Device Initialization Device Discovery and Dynamic Initialization Network Interface Registration Network Interface Service Functions Receiving and Transmitting Packets Notifier Chains and Device Status Notification Unwired Device Drivers Wireless Device Drivers (WiFi, WLAN) Bluetooth and BlueZ Infrared and IrDA Cellular from 2G to 5G

Drivers in User Space Accessing I/O and Memory Regions User Mode SCSI, USB and I2C UIO High-Speed Interconnects PCIe iSCSI Infiniband FibreChannel Debugging Device Drivers kdb, kgdb and JTAG Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump Kernel Profiling User Mode Linux Performance Tuning Device Drivers Some Final Recommendations

http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-bsps-device-drivers-line-course/

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Embedded Linux Optimization Tools and Techniques (Online Edition)

Students have access to this self-paced course for 90 days!!

Registration fee: $250 Summary - This video course provides advanced training in the debugging, testing, profiling and performance optimization of Embedded Linux software. The first part of the course focuses on advanced debugging, testing and profiling in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on using Eclipse, Backend Debuggers, JTAG and In-Circuit Emulators as well as Kernel Logging capabilities and Kernel Hacking. The latter part of the course covers performance measurement and optimization affecting boot, memory, I/O and CPU performance and key performance optimization tools for Embedded Linux software including the perf tool, advanced cache usage and compiler-based optimization. Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real-time engineers who are developing high-performance Linux applications and device drivers using Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Advanced Embedded Linux optimization. Course Objectives • To understand debugging, profiling and testing high performance Embedded Linux software. • To provide an overview of Linux application performance measurement and optimization. • To understand the tools used for performance optimization of Embedded Linux software.

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• To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project. Lecturer – Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. He has held a variety of software engineering positions at LynuxWorks, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems and Lockheed Sanders. RTETC, LLC provides real-time embedded training and consulting to many embedded systems companies. RTETC focuses on real-time operating systems (RTOS), Linux and Android solutions for the embedded systems market. Getting Started with Embedded Linux Embedded Linux Training Overview Terminology Linux Versioning The GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online) A Development Cycle Focused on Performance A Basic Optimization Process Basic Debugging Review Embedded Applications Debug GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debuggers An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Debugging with printk, syslog, syslogd and LTTng System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and /sys Filesystems

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Basic Logging KDB and KGDB Crash Dumps and Post-Mortem Debugging Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Backend Debuggers In-Circuit Emulators Hardware Simulators Analyzers Requirements Development Performance Requirements Derived Requirements Testability and Traceability Reviewing Requirements Designing for Performance Design for Test (DFT) Agile Software Design Software and Linux Decomposition Memory Management CPU and OS Partitioning Design Reviews Coding for Performance Coding Standards and Consistency Languages, Libraries and Open Source Components Learning Magic Numbers Letting Compilers Work For You Global, Static and Local Variables Code Reviews Software Testing Unit-Level Testing System-Level Testing Code Coverage Tools gcov Automated Testing Some Embedded Linux Test Recommendations DebugFS Configuring DebugFS DebugFS Capabilities Advanced Logging LogFS Using Logwatch and Swatch Using syslogd and syslog-ng Tracing ptrace and strace

New Tracing Methods SystemTap Ftrace, Tracepoints and Event Tracing Tracehooks and utrace Profiling Basic Profiling gprof and Oprofile Performance Counters LTTng Another DDD Example Manual Profiling Instrumenting Code Output Profiling Timestamping Addressing Performance Problems Types of Performance Problems Using Performance Tools to Find Areas for Improvement Application and System Optimization CPU Usage Optimization Memory Usage Optimization Disk I/O and Filesystem Usage Optimization Measuring Embedded Linux Performance Some Ideas on Performance Measurement Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations Using JTAG Methods BootLoader Measurements Boot Time Measurements The Perf Tool Origins of Perf The Perf Framework Perf Commands and Using Perf Listing Events Counting Events Profiling with Perf Static Tracing with Perf Dynamic Tracing with Perf Perf Reporting Performance Tool Assistance Recording Commands and Performance System Error Messages and Event Logging Dynamic Probes Jprobes and Return Probes Kernel Probes

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Kexec and Kdump Improving Boot Performance Boot Time Optimization The Linux Fastboot Capability Building a Smaller Linux Building a Smaller Application Filesystem Tips and Tricks Some Notes on Library Usage Improving Kernel Performance Kernel Hacking CONFIG_EMBEDDED Configuring printk Test Code Configuring Kernel and IO Scheduling Improving CPU Performance Run Queue Statistics Context Switches and Interrupts CPU Utilization Linux Performance Tools for CPU Process-Specific CPU Performance Tools Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving System Memory Performance Memory Performance Statistics Linux Performance Tools for Memory Process-Specific Memory Performance Tools More Stupid Cache Tricks Improving I/O and Device Driver Performance Disk, Flash and General File I/O Improving Overall Performance Using the Compiler Basic Compiler Optimizations Architecture-Dependent and Independent Optimization Code Modification Optimizations Feedback Based Optimization Application Resource Optimization The Hazard of Trust An Iterative Process for Optimization Improving Development Efficiency The Future of Linux Performance Tools Some Final Recommendations

http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-optimization-tools-techniques-line-course/

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Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers (Online Edition) Students have access to this self-paced course • Design Reviews Registration Fee : $125 for 90 days!! Module 4: Course Description This course provides an • Design Control (continued) introduction to the development of medical device • Design Verification software. The course is comprised of 4 modules • Software Verification Process that range from 30-45 minutes in duration. The fo- • Testing Overview cus is on complying with FDA Design Controls and • Design Validation IEC 62304 requirements. • Software Validation Process • Design Changes This course is intended for software developers • Design Transfer who are actively involved in developing medical • Design History File device software. • Course Summary Module 1 • Medical Device Definitions: FDA and European Union (EU) • Regulatory Roadmap • FDA/EU Device Classifications • FDA QSR Regulation • FDA Guidance Documents that pertain to medical device software Module 2 • International Standards that pertain to medical device software • Types of Software Regulated by FDA • Quality System basics: Procedures, Work Instructions and Records • ALL Software is Defective… Module 3: • Design Control Overview • General Requirements • Design and Development Planning • Software Development Models • Design Input • About Requirements… • Design Output

Speaker Bio: Steven R. Rakitin has over 40 years experience as a software engineer including 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. He has worked with over 85 medical device manufacturers worldwide, from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has written several papers on medical device software risk management as well as a book titled: Software Verification & Validation for Practitioners and Managers. He received a BSEE from Northeastern University and an MSCS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He earned certifications from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as a Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and Quality Auditor (CQA). He is a Senior Life member of IEEE and a member of MassMEDIC. He is on the Editorial Review Board for the ASQ Journal Software Quality Professional. As President of Software Quality Consulting Inc., he helps medical device companies comply with FDA regulations, guidance documents, and international standards in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

http://ieeeboston.org/software-development-medical-device-manufacturers-line-course/

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Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Electromagnetics (Online Edition)

Students have access to this self-paced course 3. Cross Product for 90 days!! 4. Contour Integration 5. Vector Algebra Registration Fee: $150 6. Surface Integration 7. Metric Coefficients Course Summary This course is designed for peo- 8. Coordinate Systems ple wishing to refresh or to learn the fundamental 9. Vector Coordinate Conversion mathematical concepts that are used to describe 10. Del Operator and the Gradient electromagnetic wave behavior. The modules ad- 11. The Curl dress all of the basic math concepts covered in a 12. Divergence traditional undergraduate electromagnetics course 13. Stokes Theorem in an ECE curriculum. These concepts include 14. Divergence Theorem Vector Basics, Integral Vector Calculus, Differ- 15. Laplacian ential Vector Calculus, Fundamental Coordinate 16. Complex Numbers Systems and Complex Numbers. After completing these modules, a person should have sufficient Instructorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bio: math skills to pursue graduate studies in electro- Dr. Kent Chamberlin is the Chair and a Profesmagnetics and/or be able to decipher the math pre- sor in the Department of Electrical and Computer sented in an upper-level text on the subject. Engineering. In his more than thirty-five years in academia, he has performed research for more Target audience: This course is designed for peo- than twenty sponsors, including the National Sciple wishing to refresh or to learn the fundamental ence Foundation. He has received two Fulbright mathematical concepts that are used to describe awards, including the prestigious Fulbright Distinelectromagnetic wave behavior. guished Chair, which he served in Aveiro, Portugal. He has also served as an Associate Editor for the Course chapters Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1. Vector Basics and he continues to be active in performing and 2. Dot Product publishing in a range of research areas. http://ieeeboston.org/fundamental-mathematics-concepts-relating-electromagnetics-line-course/

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Reliability Engineering for the Business World (Online Edition) Students have access to this self-paced course HALT/RDT/Predictions for 90 days!! Manufacturing Model Early Life Failures Registration Fee: $320 Wear Out and Mid Life Crisis Advanced Reliability Course Description This course is about becoming a leader in reliability Course Objective engineering. While statistics are the tools of reli- To teach you how to become the go to person in ability engineering, it takes knowledge not only of your business for objective business sensed relithese tools but also of the business. Developing ability answers and requirements. knowledge of the business, from sales, engineering, customer service, to supply chain manage- Instructorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bio ment can determine how effective you can be in Kevin is an innovative leader in reliability methodimproving reliability. ologies with more than 30 years experience in the storage industry. In his latest role as Director of Never take anything for granted, even some rules Engineering, he developed a top down reliability/ of thumb in reliability can be misleading, this course availability management process for design orgawill show you how to prove what truly happens in nizations developing mission-critical storage systhe real world and how to effect change in any part tems. Kevin previously directed the most extensive of the business where it is needed. We will explore HALT/HASS operation in the industry, with over the balance sheet, organizational structure, cus- 300 chambers worldwide. He has written several tomers, service, and high volume manufacturing. papers, consulted with many companies, 3 patents Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about how often things fail, it is also awarded and 2 pending related to systems reliabilabout where the defect came from, what is the fi- ity and test. nancial effect, the recovery, when should a business take field action, effect of human error, failure His most recent work has been performing system analysis/material science, reliability testing, and architectural analysis to optimize system availabilmuch more. I will also discuss how you develop ex- ity, serviceability and costs. Providing guidance to ecutive buy in for change. The course assumes a development to maximize system reliability and rebasic knowledge in reliability statistics. There are duce service costs. He has provided consultation 12 sessions that cover the following topics. to many large companies such as EMC, CISCO, AT+T, HP, Seagate and many others. His position Course Outline and experience has enabled him to perform extenBasics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Measurements sive field studies and design of experiments. Kevin Business Model has developed many Design Model (HW and SW)

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Introduction to Embedded Linux (Online Edition)

Students have access to this self-paced course useful for completion of lab exercises. Lab soluRegistration Fee: $350 for 90 days!! tions are also provided with the course. An Embedded Linux target hardware platform is useful but not Course Summary: absolutely required for this course. This first of a 2-part series introduces the Linux Operating System and the use of Embedded Linux Additional Reference Materials Distributions. The course focuses on the develop- Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love ment and creation of applications in an Embedded Linux System Programming by Robert Love Linux context using the Eclipse IDE. The first part of Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning by the course focuses on acquiring an understanding Steve Best of the basic Linux Operating System, highlighting Optimizing Linux Performance by Phillip G. Ezolt areas of concern for Embedded Linux applications Embedded Linux Primer by Christopher Hallinan development using Eclipse. The latter part covers Pro Linux Embedded Systems by Gene Sally the methods for booting Embedded Linux distribu- Embedded Linux Development Using Eclipse by tions including embedded cross-development and Doug Abbott Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet et al target board considerations. Essential Linux Device Drivers by Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran Who Should Attend: The course is designed for real-time engineers Course Downloadable Content: who are building Embedded Linux solutions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requir- Video Lecture ing a refresher course on Embedded Linux. This Hands-On Lab Instructions course will clearly demonstrate both the strengths Hands-On Lab Solutions and weaknesses of the Linux Operating System in Additional Related Materials Embedded Systems. The Basics Linux Terminology, History and Versioning Course Objectives: To provide a basic understanding of the Linux OS The Linux Community: Desktop & Embedded The GPL and the Eclipse IDE framework. To gain an understanding of the complexities of Linux References (Books and Online) Embedded Linux Distributions and their use in emGetting Started bedded systems. To give students confidence to apply these con- Kernel Source Code Building the Kernel cepts to their next Embedded Linux project Embedded Linux Kernels Hardware and Software Requirements Linux 2.6 The student should have a working Linux desktop environment either directly installed or in a virtu- Basic Kernel Capabilities alization environment. The desktop Linux should Process and Threads Management have the GNU compiler and binary utilities (binutils) Signals and System Calls already installed. A working Eclipse C/C++ instal- Synchronization, IPC and Error Handling lation or prior knowledge of C-based Makefiles is Timing and Timers

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Memory Management and Paging The I/O Subsystem: A Tale of Two Models Modularization Debugging Process-Level and System-Level Debug GDB and KGDB GDB Server and Remote Debugging An Eclipse Debug Example Other Debug and Test Tools Other System-Level Debug Approaches Process & Threads Management What are Processes and Threads? Virtual Memory Mapping Creating and Managing Processes and Threads Thread-Specific Data (TSD) POSIX The Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) Kernel Threads Signals System Calls Scheduling Linux 2.4 and 2.6 Scheduling Models The O(1) Scheduler The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) Synchronization Via Global Data Via Semaphores, Files and Signals Inter-Process Communications (IPC) Message Queues Semaphores Revisited Shared Memory Pipes, FIFOs and Futexes Remote Procedure Calls Networking Error Handling errno and perror strerror and strerror_r oops, panics and Segmentation Faults Timing How Linux Tells Time

Kernel, POSIX and Interval Timers High-Resolution Timers (HRTs) Memory Management and Paging Demand Paging and Virtual Memory Allocating User and Kernel Memory Mapping Device Memory The Slab Allocator The OOM Killer Memory in Embedded Systems Modularization Creating a Module and Module Loading Dependency Issues In Embedded Systems Shared Libraries A Shared Library Example Static and Dynamic Libraries The I/O Subsystem: A Tale of Two Models The Original Device Driver Model The Standard I/O Interface The New Device Driver Model and Kernel Object Classes Initialization Platform Devices, Busses, Adapters and Drivers Comparing the Two Models Embedded Linux Trends Development, Monitoring and Testing Some Final Recommendations Lecturer: Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based development tools, training and consulting for the embedded systems market.

http://ieeeboston.org/introduction-to-embedded-linux-part-i-el201-online-course/

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Design Thinking for Today’s Technical Work

New Online Course

Students have access to this self-paced course Course Objectives for 90 days!! Provide an understanding of Design Thinking and how an individual can apply it to their technical Registration Fee: $160 work: • Understand the steps of Design Thinking Course Description: (Understand, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test) This course covers the principles of Design Think- • Learn how to apply Design Thinking in teching; the steps commonly used; how it enhances the nical work likelihood of success in a wide variety of applica- • Understand where Design Thinking can be tions; and, in particular, how to apply it to techni- applied in project activities. cal work. Examples of its application to technical work are presented along with the successes that Who Would Benefit from this Course followed. Anyone who works on solutions to problems or designs hardware, software, products, services, Design Thinking has garnered much attention in re- and processes. This includes technical professioncent years mainly as a way to design consumer prod- als, project managers, and organizational managucts that engage users, such as Apple’s iPhone. But ers. Also, anyone who wants to learn what Design its use is spreading to situations ranging from how Thinking is about in a practical sense. to provide medical care to planning one’s career. This course explains what Design Thinking is about, Course Modules but, most important, explains how an individual can • Module 1 – How Design Thinking Can Help Techapply Design Thinking to their own technical work. nical Work (60 minutes) Care has been taken to focus the course content on using Design Thinking as a structured, practical • Module 2 – Understand: Explore the Problem process for the daily work of technical profession- (44 minutes) als. A specific technical example is carried through the teaching of the five stages of Design Thinking. • Module 3 – Define: Synthesize What Is Needed The course covers applying Design Thinking to the (23 minutes) range of tasks performed during a technical project, including design of: technical functions; user • Module 4 – Ideate: Generate Solutions ( interactions (if applicable); factors for business 26 minutes) success; solutions to problems that arise; and project presentations and reports to influence adoption • Module 5 – Prototype: Build Versions to Test of project outcomes, funding approval, and hiring (23 minutes) for consulting. The content applies to employees of large to small companies, start-ups, consultants • Module 6 – Test: Examine and Learn (28 minutes) and contact work, and government organizations. The course is focused on an individual worker em- • Module 7 – Design Thinking for Presenting and ploying Design Thinking. Writing (23 minutes)

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• Module 8 – Getting Started with Design Thinking his consulting services; and to planning briefings, reports, and courses. His clients have included (30 minutes) FAA, NASA, BAE Systems, Engility, Georgia Tech Speaker biography University, San Jose State University, and Saab Speaker: James L. Poage, President/Owner JLP Sensis. Dr. Poage has co-authored the book, Flair: Performance Consulting Design Your Daily Work, Products, and Services to Energize Customers, Colleagues, and Audiences Dr. James L. Poage has been designing future con- (Maven House Press, 2016), with his daughter, cepts for Air Traffic Control for 25 years, first with Jennifer Poage who works in fashion design. Dr. the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Poage has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from and then for the past dozen years as an indepen- the Harvard University School of Engineering and dent consultant (JLP Performance Consulting). He Applied Sciences and a M.S. and B.S. in electrical has taught short courses on Benefit-Cost analysis engineering from Stanford University. to the FAA and NASA, as well as spoken at conferences and published in professional journals. Over Note: Course participants will receive a copy of the past 15 years, Dr. Poage has been applying the book, Flair. Design Thinking to his project work; to marketing

Call for Course Speakers/Organizers

The Boston Section is one of the largest and most technically divers sections of the IEEE. We have over 20 active chapters and affinity groups.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Committees Chairman & SIAM Liaison Dr. Jeremy Kepner Fellow, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Senior Advisory Board Chair Mr. Robert Bond CTO, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Senior Advisory Board Prof. Anant Agarwal MIT CSAIL Prof. Nadya Bliss Arizona State University Dr. Richard Games Chief Engineer, MITRE Intelligence Center Mr. John Goodhue Director, MGHPCC Dr. Bernadette Johnson Chief Scientist, DIUX Dr. Richard Linderman ASDR&E Mr. David Martinez Associate Division Head MIT Lincoln Laboratory

www.ieee‐hpec.org

The IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC ’18) will be held in the Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, USA on 25 – 28 September 2018. The HPEC charter is to be the premier conference in the world on the confluence of HPC and Embedded Computing. The technical committee seeks new presentations that clearly describe advances in high performance extreme computing technologies, emphasizing one or more of the following topics:           

Machine Learning Graph Analytics and Network Science Advanced Multicore Software Technologies Advanced Processor Architectures Automated Design Tools Big Data and Distributed Computing Big Data Meets Big Compute Case Studies and Benchmarking of Applications Cloud HPEC Computing Technologies for Challenging Form Factors ASIC and FPGA Advances

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Dr. Michael Stonebraker Co-founder SciDB and Vertica; CTO VoltDB and Paradigm4

Submission Deadline: May 18, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: August 1, 2018

Publications Chair Prof. Miriam Leeser Northeastern University Administrative Contacts Mr. Robert Alongi IEEE Boston Section

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Full papers (up to 6 pages, references not included), and Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages, references included).

IMPORTANT DATES:

CFP Co-Chairs Dr. Patrick Dreher MIT Dr. Franz Franchetti CMU

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Data Intensive Computing Digital Front Ends Fault-Tolerant Computing • Embedded Cloud Computing General Purpose GPU Computing High Performance Data Analysis Interactive and Real-Time Supercomputing Mapping and Scheduling of Parallel and Real-Time Applications New Application Frontiers Open System Architectures Secure Computing & Anti-Tamper Technologies

HPEC accepts two types of submissions:

Dr. John Reynders CIO Moderna

Publicity Co-Chairs Dr. Albert Reuther MIT Lincoln Laboratory Mr. Dan Campbell GTRI

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Preference will be given to papers with strong, quantitative results, demonstrating novel approaches or describing high quality prototypes. Authors of full papers can mark their preference for a poster display or an oral presentation. Presenters who wish to have hardware demonstrations are encouraged to mark their preference for a poster display. Accepted extended abstracts will be displayed as posters. All paper and extended abstract submissions need to use the approved IEEE templates. Full paper submissions with the highest peer review ratings will be published by IEEE in the official HPEC proceedings available on IEEE eXplore. All other accepted submissions and extended abstracts are published on ieee-hpec.org. Vendors are encouraged to sign up for vendor booths. This will allow vendors to present their HPEC technologies in an interactive atmosphere suitable for product demonstration and promotion. Papers can be declared “student paper” if the first author was a student when doing the presented work, and will be eligible for the “IEEE HPEC best student paper award.” Papers should not be anonymized. We welcome input (hpec@ieee-hpec.org) on tutorials, invited talks, special sessions, peer reviewed presentations, and vendor demos. Instructions for submitting will be posted on the conference web site shortly. Full paper submissions should use the approved IEEE templates. The highest scoring submissions will be published by IEEE in the official HPEC proceedings available on IEEE eXplore. All other accepted submissions are published on ieee-hpec.org.

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2018

Electronic Design Innovation Conference & Exhibition Where high frequency meets high speed.

Call for Abstracts Now Open Be a part of the educational conference focused on what engineers need to know to solve today’s technical challenges: EDI CON USA. All accepted and submitted papers considered for an Outstanding Paper Award and eligible for publication online in Microwave Journal and/or Signal Integrity Journal.

Planned Tracks:

• RF & Microwave Design • Mobile Front End Design • Low Power RF & IoT • 5G Advanced Communications • Broadband Networks • Radar & Defense • Amplifier Design • Signal Integrity • Power Integrity • Electromagnetic Integrity • Simulation & Modeling • Test & Measurement

October 17-19, 2018 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, CA EDICONUSA.com Abstracts Due: May 3rd Organized by

Official Publications

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IEEE Boston Section Online Courses:

(Students have 90 day access to all online, self-paced courses) Verilog101:Verilog Foundations

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System Verilog 101: Design Constructs

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System Verilog 102: Verification Constructs

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High Performance Project Management

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/high-performance-project-management-online-course/

Introduction to Embedded Linux Part I

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/introduction-to-embedded-linux-part-i-el201-online-course/

Embedded Linux Optimization - Tools and Techniques

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-optimization-tools-techniques-line-course/ New

Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-bsps-device-drivers-line-course/

Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers

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Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Electromagnetics

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/fundamental-mathematics-concepts-relating-electromagnetics-line-course/

Reliability Engineering for the Business World

Full course description and registration at , http://ieeeboston.org/reliability-engineering-business-world-line-course/ New

Design Thinking for Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Technical Work

http://ieeeboston.org/design-thinking-technical-work-line-course/